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Achidago B. Akugri

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Hon.
Achidago B. Akugri
Member of Parliament for Binduri Constituency
In office
7 January 2001 – 6 January 2005
PresidentJohn Kufuor
Preceded byFortunate Atubiga
Succeeded byMark Anthony Awuni
Personal details
NationalityGhana Ghanaian
Political partyNational Democratic Congress

Achidago B. Akugri is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[1] He is a former member of Parliament for the Binduri constituency in the Upper East Region and a member of the National Democratic Congress political party in Ghana.[1][2]

Politics

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Akugri was a member of the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[1] He is a member of the National Democratic Congress. He represented the political party at the Binduri constituency of the Upper East Region of Ghana.[3]

His political career began when he contested in the 2000 Ghanaian General elections and won on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[4][3]

2000 Elections

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Akugri was elected as the member of parliament for the Binduri constituency in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections.[1][4] He won the elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[4] His constituency was a part of the 8 parliamentary seats out of 12 seats won by the National Democratic Congress in that election for the Western Region.[5][6][3]

The National Democratic Congress won a minority total of 92 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[5] He was elected with 12,174 votes out of 19,927 total valid votes cast.[1] This was equivalent to 64% of the total valid votes cast.[4][1]

He was elected over Atubiga Mathias of the People's National Convention, James A. Anaba of the New Patriotic Party, and Benjamin A. Asatanga of the National Reformed Party.[4][1] These obtained 3,562, 2,937 and 349 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast.[1] These were equivalent to 18.7%, 15.4% and 1.8% respectively of total valid votes cast.[4][1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i FM, Peace. "Ghana Election 2000 Results -Binduri Constituency". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Archived from the original on 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  2. ^ FM, Peace. "Ghana Election 2000 Results - Upper East Region". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Archived from the original on 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  3. ^ a b c FM, Peace. "Ghana Election 2000 Results - Upper East Region". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Archived from the original on 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Electoral Commission of Ghana -Parliamentary Result-Election 2000. Ghana: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 2007. p. 46.
  5. ^ a b "Statistics of Presidential and Parliamentary Election Results". Fact Check Ghana. 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  6. ^ "Ghana Parliamentary Chamber: Parliament Elections held in 1992". Archived from the original on 2020-02-19.